The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... SWIFT ........ BROOME POPE ' PITT .. THOMSON .... 159 ... 193 ..197 ... 316 ..319 WATTS .... .... 331 A. PHILIPS . WEST ........... COLLINS ... ..339 .346 ....... 350 DYER .... ..355 SHENSTONE ..... .358 YOUNG ... 365 MALLET ...
... SWIFT ........ BROOME POPE ' PITT .. THOMSON .... 159 ... 193 ..197 ... 316 ..319 WATTS .... .... 331 A. PHILIPS . WEST ........... COLLINS ... ..339 .346 ....... 350 DYER .... ..355 SHENSTONE ..... .358 YOUNG ... 365 MALLET ...
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... Swift considered as the crime that obstructed all kindness from the house of Ha- nover . He did not , however , omit to improve the right which his office had given him to the notice of the royal 38 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... Swift considered as the crime that obstructed all kindness from the house of Ha- nover . He did not , however , omit to improve the right which his office had given him to the notice of the royal 38 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... Swift , to purchase an annuity . Gay , in that disastrous year , * had a present from young Craggs of some South - sea stock , and once supposed him- self to be master of twenty thousand pounds . His friends persuaded him to sell his ...
... Swift , to purchase an annuity . Gay , in that disastrous year , * had a present from young Craggs of some South - sea stock , and once supposed him- self to be master of twenty thousand pounds . His friends persuaded him to sell his ...
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... Swift had been observing once to mr . Gay , what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate pastoral might make . Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time ; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the ...
... Swift had been observing once to mr . Gay , what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate pastoral might make . Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time ; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the ...
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... Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality , as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious light ; " but others , and among them dr . Herring , afterwards archbishop of Canterbury , censured it ...
... Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality , as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious light ; " but others , and among them dr . Herring , afterwards archbishop of Canterbury , censured it ...
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